Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Libraryhttp://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/partners/BDPL/browse/?sort=title&start=302009-11-12T15:16:28-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Northwest, 1967]2006-08-09T00:38:40-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16201/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16201/"><img alt="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Northwest, 1967]" title="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Northwest, 1967]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16201/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This photograph illustrates an aerial view of Mineral Wells from the northwest. Note the Baker Hotel in the middle of the top half of the picture. The Crazy Water Hotel is below the Baker (two blocks in front). The Box Factory is the white many-storied building a few blocks below The Crazy and near the center of the picture. The Nazareth Hospital is a block to the right of The Crazy. The Mineral Wells Box Factory (Formerly the Crazy Water Crystals plant) is about two blocks this side (below) the Crazy Hotel and Convention Hall is a block to its left. The photograph was taken April 29, 1967.</p>[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the South-Southeast, 1967]2006-08-09T00:50:29-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16197/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16197/"><img alt="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the South-Southeast, 1967]" title="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the South-Southeast, 1967]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16197/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This photograph shows an aerial view that was taken April 29, 1967. Please note the Baker Hotel in the middle of the upper half of the picture, The Crazy Hotel is two blocks right (north and west) of The Baker. East Mountain is to the right of The Baker and "The Cove" (housing area)lies between it and Bald Mountain.</p>[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Southeast, 1967]2006-08-09T00:35:48-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16202/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16202/"><img alt="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Southeast, 1967]" title="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Southeast, 1967]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16202/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>An aerial photograph that was taken April 29, 1967 of Mineral Wells looks northwest. Notable landmarks are the Baker Hotel (in the middle of the picture), United First Methodist Church (a block east and to the right of the Baker), the Crazy Water Hotel (above the church), the Box Factory two-three blocks right of The Crazy, the Old High School (the three-story structure about six blocks left (west) of the Baker at the edge of the populated area), and the Old Rock School House (right and adjacent to) the Old High School.</p>[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Southwest]2006-08-09T00:41:35-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16200/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16200/"><img alt="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Southwest]" title="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells From the Southwest]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16200/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>An aerial view of Mineral Wells from the southwest is shown here. It starts about SW 4th Avenue. The photograph was taken before 1967, the year the present First Baptist Church, which is not visible on lower left of the photograph, was completed.</p>[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells, Texas]2006-11-27T20:45:45-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20212/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20212/"><img alt="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells, Texas]" title="[An Aerial View of Mineral Wells, Texas]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20212/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>An aerial view of Mineral Wells, Texas, taken by A. F. Weaver on April 29, 1967 looks North on Oak Avenue.
Identifiable in the picture are the Baker Hotel to the middle right of the picture, The Crazy Hotel in the middle left, the old Post Office (now the Ladies Club) one block north of The Baker, and the Nazareth Hospital (one block left of The Crazy Hotel). Also in the picture are now-destroyed buildings: The Damron Hotel (just left of center), the Baker Water Storage Building (mid-upper right, small white building just to right of Baker Hotel), the Oxford Hotel (just right of center, now [2008] Lynch Plaza) and the Convention Hall(upper left).</p>[An Aerial View of Northwest Mineral Wells]2006-08-08T23:08:14-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16234/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16234/"><img alt="[An Aerial View of Northwest Mineral Wells]" title="[An Aerial View of Northwest Mineral Wells]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16234/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>An aerial view of northwest Mineral Wells that was taken between 1959 and 1969 is shown here. The Hexagon Hotel on North Oak Street can be seen in the center left foreground with the Convention Center immediately north (to the right)of it, and the Crazy Water Crystal plant two blocks northwest.</p>[An Aerial View of Residential Areas]2006-08-09T00:53:24-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16196/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16196/"><img alt="[An Aerial View of Residential Areas]" title="[An Aerial View of Residential Areas]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16196/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>An aerial view of residential area in Mineral Wells is shown here. The exact locale of the photograph is unclear.</p>Air Masses2009-04-16T23:32:58-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46578/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46578/"><img alt="Air Masses" title="Air Masses" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46578/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This booklet gives an overview of air masses as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes an "Explanation of the classification of air masses; weather associated with particular air masses; [and the] trajectory and source region of air masses that invade the United States." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.</p>The American Legion Drum and Bugle Corp at their 1933 Convention in Chicago2006-08-08T21:45:43-05:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16264/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16264/"><img alt="The American Legion Drum and Bugle Corp at their 1933 Convention in Chicago" title="The American Legion Drum and Bugle Corp at their 1933 Convention in Chicago" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16264/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This much-decayed picture has obviously been pinned to a cork-board. Enough of the legend at its bottom survives to proclaim that the picture commemorates the attendance of the Drum and Bugle Corps of Mineral Wells' Fearis Anderson Post No. 75, at a national convention of the the American Legion, in Chicago, Illinois, on October 2-5, 1933. The photograph was taken, the legend states, compliments of the Majestic Hotel.
Please note: The American Legion provided the following names to accompany the picture: David Burnswick,[sic] Director; Paul Grable, Drum Major; Tommie Burns, Trumpet; James W. Calvert, Trumpet; E.M. Davidson, Trumpet; Lawrence Davis, Trumpet; Sam Goldman, Trumpet; Jack Armstrong, Trumpet; Bob Echols,[sic] Clarinet; (?) Davidson, Clarinet; Lloyd Kendall, Clarinet; Bob Irvine, Clarinet; (?)Brady, Piccolo; Arly (?) Bolfour,[sic] S. Drums, B. Drums; Dan Raeffell,[sic] Bass; W.E. Davis, Bass; Roy Prince, Trombone; Vaughan Davis, Trombone; (?) Trombone; Franz Schubert, Baritone; Alex Pavlovsky, Horn; W. W. Woodward. Horn; George Oliver, Horn; Bill Chancellor, Color Bearer; W.H.H. Smith, Color Bearer; Allan Wallace, Color Guard; George Barber, Color Guard.
This band was awarded a state championship three times.</p>[Another View of Mineral Wells]2009-11-12T15:16:28-06:00http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth60952/<p><a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth60952/"><img alt="[Another View of Mineral Wells]" title="[Another View of Mineral Wells]" src="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth60952/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This picture shows several different styles of house prominent in Mineral Wells, ranging from Colonial Revival (center) Queen Anne (upper tier, right), to Classical Revival (Upper tier, center). The Convention Hall is barely visible in the lower left corner, so the picture clearly antedates its demolition.</p>